The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-03-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK

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Stewart Brothers, slate and timberfmcr
chants of London, have failed. The liza
bilities are stated to be $5,0O0,00O.
The channel Of Powder river, at Powde,
River, Wyoming, has lately changed
leaving costly iron bridge high and dry
above land.
Rev. James d. Fulton the well-kncwn
Baptist clergyman, is about to abandon
his present pulpit in Brooklyn to engage
in the work of the conversion of the Cath
olics of this country.
Sunday night at Coleman, Texas, three
mer seized the express agent, and, at the
point of revolvers, compelled him to opon
the safe Of the express Office, from which
they secured about 5000 booty.
Isaac H. Vincent, Alabama's defaulting
treasurer, who has been missing since
1885, having got away with over two hun
dred thousand dollars of the public mon
ey, has been captured. He was caught
near Ell Paso, Texas.
The president has made the following
appointments: CHI. J. Taylor of Kansas
City, to he minister resident and consul
general to Liberia; James A. Homer of
New York, secretary of legation in the
Central American states and consul -gener-
al at Guatemala.
Mr.. Beecher's will, as filed for probate,
directs that the proceeds of his life
insurance he invested for the benefit of
his wife, and the rest of his estate be dis
tributed among his children as the execu-
tors may think best. His three sons and
son-in law are constituted executors and
trustees Of the estate without bonds.
Patrick Casey, who killed Daniel Do
rem year ago at Dcadwood, has been
discharged from custody on the ground
Of previous jeopardy, his first trial on the
charge of manslaughter having been dis
missed on the ground that the evidence
demanded an indictment for murder or
nothing.
Sunday afternoon Dan Connor a brake
man on the Panhandle railway, near
Wheeling, W. Va. while riding on top of
freight car, was struck by the channel
span Of brid dge and knocked into the
river, a distance of so yards, and swan
over 800 yards before he was rescued.
1t was then discovered that one leg was
SO badly crushed that it had to be ampu-
tatcd. His recovery is doubtful.
A fight of forty-two rounds, lasting
three and onc-half hours. for $50 side,
was fought in a private parlor between
Young Gamers and Ned Harrington, two
local pugilists, at Wilmington, Delaware,
last Friday. The fight was with four ounce
gloves, and in the fourth round Harring-
ton broke his right hand, but fought out
forty-two rounds, when the battle was de-
cided draw.
Joseph Pratt, a livery stable keeper of
Denver, Colo, had difficulty In the
stable with George Curtis over the owner
ship of a hayrick which Curtis was d:iv-
ing away with and upon which Pratt
claimed he had mortgage. As the dri
yer undertook to start the horses, Pratt
seized the reins of one horses head The
team started forward suddenly and Pratt
was struck by the hayrick and thrown
backward into we'll and drowned before
he was fished out. .
At meeting of the members of the
General Passenger and Ticket Agents as
sociation at Washington Wednesday that
body adopted unanimous resolutions
which express the desire of the association
to act in harmony with the interstate
commerce law, and pledges the associa-
tion to strict adherence to its provisions.
The convention adopted the recommends
ton of tho National Association of Bag
gage Agents, that $50 pounds be fixed
as the limit for each full ticket, and
referred to the various local associations
the recommendation of the baggage agents
that uniform rate of Is per cent on ex-
cess baggage be established.
Saturday night band of armed muo
went to the house of VIM. Eaton, thirty
two miles south of Kansas City, and
breaking down the doors, fired volley
into the house. William Eaton and Chas.
Green were killed outright. Eaton's
aged father was seriously wounded. One
woman was shot in the head and another
III the hands. The murderers then made
good their escape Mrs. Eaton atfirms
that she recognized two of them. 1t is
alleged that the attacking party are mem
bcrs of the Bald Knobbers, noted vigi-
lance organization, and it is supposed
that they killed Eaton and Green for be-
ing outspoken against them. The great
est excitement prevails IN that section
over the affair.
Nathan Falk, a travelling salesman, was
arraigned before Denver, COL, justice.
CHARGED with the larcencv of 1000